Word: eras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ERA Tactics...
...band belted out The Yellow Rose of Texas, a bronze torch made its final lap in front of Houston's Albert Thomas Convention Center late last week in the strong hands of Tennis Star Billie Jean King. She was greeted by some 2,000 determined women chanting "ERA! ERA!"-for the Equal Rights Amendment. Puffed New York City's hefty Bella Abzug, who trotted the last stretch with Billie Jean: "We are here running for equality. We'll never run for cover on this journey...
Most want quite a few things-and some women would rather not have them at all. By their votes, it was clear that most delegates want passage of the ERA, accessible and safe abortion, Government funding for day care, and a host of other measures promoting greater social and economic equality for their...
Jackson is exaggerating, to be sure. Even those experts who criticize the Jacobin era of the sexual revolution generally believe some good things have come to pass-greater frankness, greater tolerance, greater willingness to experiment. Many also point out that the time has come to stop equating morality with sexual morality, to separate it from cheating, betrayal and cruelty. Still, at a time when sex is being widely commercialized, when people's emotional needs are often manipulated and exploited, it is interesting simply to record that a substantial majority of Americans cling to a belief in many...
...Harvard men's field hockey team trumpeted in a new era in the sport when they defeated UMass yesterday in what is, believed to be the first men's intercollegiate field hockey game ever played in the United States...